Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zubin Mehta

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Vanessa Ferlito

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Right now I want to tell our investors to calm down and give us more time to fully integrate to get better performance.

Right now I'd call this cheap. I drove through San Francisco this weekend, and it was over $3 everywhere.

Right now I'm trying to deal with this. I've got another call down the coast. My crews are taking care of that. We're going to have to deal with this.

Right now, I'm relying on the fire chiefs to verify their membership. I'm leaving it up to the chiefs to decide who they consider a fireman. Then if they're calling the person who stops by once every five years to sweep the floor a fireman, we'll reconsider it next year.

Sebastian Telfair

Right here, this is MSG. We call it the Garden.

Right after the hurricane hit, we had calls from our members saying we should do something.

Ricky's a cool, calm quarterback and he's not going to worry about the pressure,

Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world

Mike Alstott

People were hollering for me. I ran on the field, put on my helmet, heard the call and thought: 'Uh, oh, here we go,

Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!

People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Peter Lynch

People were writing off California a couple of years ago, now they have a massive surplus. Canada is running its first surplus in 20 years and Mexico is doing well. Wouldn't you have been shocked if someone told you that the U.S. would have been running a surplus?

Pluto is a dynamic example of what we might call an anti-greenhouse effect.

POLITICS:- politicans call it A way to democracy, and I call it the most perfectly painted picture of confusion.

Portfolio performance for a calendar year can often be improved by simply selling the worst performers at the end of January.

E. O. Wilson

Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.

Liam Hemsworth

My uncles used to call me 'Devil Child,' or 'Triple' for triple six. They used to tell my brother Chris that they were going to get the demons out of him because he was also a little crazy. But to me, they'd just be like, 'You're too far gone. There's no exorcising you anymore.'

Bill Cowher

On fourth-and-1 and you have a guy like Jerome Bettis, it's an easy call to make, really.

Rabih Alameddine

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

Nobody can complain we're going to Texas or California too much to sign players. That makes 41 players we've signed from here, and 35 of them are within an hour's drive.

Tony Dungy

No. 1, we had some penalties that we don't usually have, and No. 2, we had a crew that calls about 20 or 25 a game and they tried to get to their average, ... Some of those were not penalties.

Henry Blodget

Near-term forecasts call for pain, especially in the travel sector.

NCC was calling people they shouldn't have been calling, and claiming things they shouldn't have been claiming.

On rare occasions, someone will call up and say they would like to donate a kidney to someone they don't know.

James Avery

On one show before a live audience, I had to look out the door and call for Will Smith to come in. The audience couldn't see him, but there he was with his naked butt staring me in the face. I didn't normally hang out with twenty-something practical jokers, so sometimes he was a little much.

On the candidate side, we get very little error or people calling in with questions.

Constance Zimmer

On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.

Only workers can decide whether or not there will be a strike Monday morning. The workers hope it doesn't come to a strike. This is a tough call for workers' families.